PlayGround-LA presents Season 12

MONDAY NIGHT PLAYGROUND

“Reclaiming Herstory”
March 11th, 2024 7pm PT
Broadwater Second Stage & Vimeo Live Simulcast

ACKNOWLEDGING THE LEGACY OF THE LAND WE INHABIT

PlayGround-LA acknowledges that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the Chumash, Tongva, and Kizh (“keech”), the original inhabitants of Los Angeles. As the past and present Indigenous stewards of this land and in accordance with their traditions, the Chumash, Tongva and Kizh Nation (Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians) have never ceded, lost, nor forgotten their responsibilities as the caretakers of this place, as well as for all peoples who reside in their traditional territory. We recognize the historic injustice of the forcible removal of the Chumash, Tongva and Kizh people from their ancestral lands, and that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the Ancestors, Elders and Relatives of the Chumash, Tongva and Kizh Communities and by affirming their sovereign rights as First Peoples. We honor the storytellers of the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians and are grateful for our ability to share and uplift Indigenous stories and those of other historically marginalized communities.

To learn about the legacy of the land you inhabit, visit Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land. To read the complete Land Acknowledgment Policy, click here.

PLAYGROUND-LA’S ANTI-RACIST POLICY

PlayGround-LA recognizes the impact of racial oppression within society and the American Theater and that we have been complicit in White Supremacy culture. Our goal is to co-create safety for our community by identifying and interrupting instances of racism and all forms of oppression when we witness them, through specific actions rooted in the principles of anti-racism and accessibility. In its endeavor to address the implications of our history, PlayGround-LA is committed to its compliance with the following fundamental rights:

• The recognition of inherent dignity and worth of each human being.
• The recognition of equality of all human beings.
• Recognition of rights of ethnic, racial, cultural, linguistic and religious groups.
• Equality and non-discrimination.

PlayGround-LA’s Anti-Racist Policy applies to: all members of the PlayGround-LA community, including employees, independent contractors, volunteers, audience members, donors, and general members of the community.

To read the complete Anti-Racist Policy, click here.

Monday Night PlayGround Memberships

We are deeply grateful to our 2023-24 Monday Night PlayGround Members, whose direct support helps to underwrite artists fees for the Monday Night series across all four regions: Sam & Naomi Abramovitz, Tanvi Agrawal, Linda Amayo-Hassan, Sharon Baldwin, Jaisey Bates, Tim Bishop, Ms. Linda B Breaux-Smith, Emilie Brooks, Robyn Brooks, Summer Broyhill, Madeleine Butler, Ben Cain, Julie Campbell, Sidney Glass & Eleanor Clement Glass, Joan Cleveland, Ms. Marilyn Berg Cooper, Sandra Cruze, Dodds Delzell, Hillary DeMartino, Sharon Ebehardt, Ann Ehrmann, Ms. Cherielyn Ferguson, Krystyna Finlayson, Sheri Flanders, Conde Freeman, Michael Fried, Dr. Jan Gilman, Lara Gilman, Michael Tonjum & Jan Gilman, Hollis Greenwood, Ruben Grijalva, Regina Guggenheim, Dana Hall, Rachel Harner, Sharlene Hartman, Gail Hillebrand & Hugh Barroll, Lucy Hsu, Brandy T Jones, Ms. Anne M. Krause, Emily Kuroda, Douglas Le Blanc, Ms. Kristy Lin Billuni, Mr. John Lindner, Jonathan Luskin & Leslie Katz, Rhea MacCallum, George Maguire, Brian Markley, Linda Marks, Dr. Sheila McCormick, Bacilio Mendez II, Ms. Cynthia L Morishige, Dan Morley, Molly Noble & Bob Guilbault, Annette Oliveira, Maryl Olivera, Ms. Vicki Oswald, Bridgette Dutta Portman, Mrs. Elizabeth Poston, Madeline Puccioni, Mr. George Rose, Jessica June Rowe, Michelle Ruscetta, John J. Ruskin, Kathryn Ryan, Miyoko Sakatani, Louel Senores, Mark Sherstinsky, Nancy W. Smith, Stan Stone, Cathie Stonie, Mr. Richard Dana Swart, Mary Lou Torre, Kim Tram, Jeffrey Trescott, Michael E Tuton, Dr. Eidell Wasserman, Michael Waterson, Bex White, Christian Wilburn, Janine Wilburn, and Maury Zeff. Thank you!

To learn more about the Monday Night PlayGround membership program, click here.

BECOME A MEMBER TODAY!

Denial
by Rachel Harner
Directed by Cybelle Kaehler
Bobbi………………Summer Broyhill
Emma…………….……Julia Belanova
Hazel………………….Cynthia Aldrich
Landon………………….Ronan Arthur

She Was There
by Margo Rofé
Directed by Christian Haines
Dani………………….Tamiah Bantum
Flora….………………..Krystal Mosley

The Last Rosie
by Mildred Inez Lewis
Directed by Ivan Rivas
Ginger……………..…Scarlett Redmond
Elinor………………………..Melissa Ortiz
Woman…………….Stephanie T. Keefer

Smiling with Teeth
by Baylee Shlichtman
Directed by Lizzy McCabe
Emma……………..Jordan Carlson
Elisabeth……………Krystal Mosley

The Beauty Who Created The Beast
by Cara Sanchez
Directed by Sylvia Cervantes Blush
Millicent Patrick………..Carolyn Deskin
Bernard Wright…………………..Josef Bette
Nancy……………………….Alejandra Jaime

Gender as a Second Language
by Summer Broyhill
Directed by Frieda de Lackner
Lauren………………..Jennifer Cipolla
Ms. Kerrigan….…Elizabeth Schmidt
Ms. Harding………………Mae Ruling

Stage Manager – Jay Dutcher

House Manager – Julie Lippert-Pasco

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

Following tonight’s performance, we invite your participation in this month’s People’s Choice Award. Through the People’s Choice Award, our audience can play a direct impact in furthering the career of a promising new playwright. To vote, make a People’s Choice Award tax-deductible donation on behalf of your favorite play(s)/playwright(s) from the evening. Every donated dollar counts as a vote while directly supporting PlayGround-LA’s award-winning incubator programs.

Cast your vote for your favorite play(s) by making a People’s Choice donation via Zelle (info@playground-la.org), Venmo (our account ID is @playgroundsf and if they ask for the last four digits of the phone, it’s 8541) or on our website at https://playground-la.org/monday). Add a note/memo with your gift (you can use the donor acknowledgment section when donating on our website) to indicate your favorite play(s) or email your selection to boxoffice@playground-sf.org.

At the end of the week, we’ll tally up the top vote-getter and automatic semi-finalist for our season-ending Best of PlayGround. It’s a powerful way of showing your support for new writers and their work, while helping PlayGround-LA continue doing what we do!

BIOGRAPHIES

PLAYWRIGHTS

SUMMER BROYHILL (Gender as a Second Language), she/her, is an actor, dancer, singer, musician, educator, and writer. She has performed on Broadway (Hairspray), National tours (Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hairspray), Off-Broadway (Killer Therapy, The Day Before Spring, and The Independents, a New York Times Critics’ Pick), and in numerous regional productions, short films, and web series. Her solo play “DREAM Lover” debuted at the Playground San Francisco Solo Play Festival in 2022. MFA: Old Globe/ University of San Diego Graduate Acting Program. She is a proud member of the Playground-LA Writers Pool. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.

RACHEL HARNER (Denial), she/her, she/her, is a screenwriter, playwright, and creative executive at Spycraft Entertainment. She has several TV series and features in development across a variety of genres, including a feature rom-com set on a cruise ship. Rachel is a producer on the iHeart podcast “Mission Implausible” and an assistant producer on the Freevee YA series CLASSIFIED. Rachel is the co-director of the Harvardwood Writers Program and a contributing playwright for ShotzLA. When she isn’t writing, Rachel loves to cook comfort food, shoot archery, and play a mountain dwarf pirate captain in Dungeons & Dragons.

MILDRED INEZ LEWIS (The Last Rosie), she/her, writes and directs for stage and screen. She is currently in a winter intensive with her play/kom’plisit/ at the Workshop Theatre (NYC) and looking forward to upcoming projects with Noise Now at A Noise Within (Glendale) and Central Works (Berkeley).

MARGO ROFÉ (She Was There), she/her/ella, is a retired lawyer/playwright who resides in Southern California. Margo’s works have been showcased and/or workshopped by the University of Nebraska Omaha as part of its BIPOC Festival; The Pulp Stage Theatre in Portland, OR; Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble; The Robey Theater; and the Alliance of LA Playwrights. Her monologue “Caplata” was published in the anthology “The Covid Monologues”. Her play “Venn Diagram” reached the semi-finalist round of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s National Fellowship competition. Margo served as a committee member for the 43rd NAACP Image Awards’ Literary Sub-committee in the category of Poetry Literature.

CARA SANCHEZ (The Beauty Who Created The Beast), she/her, is a recent graduate of Cal State Fullerton, where she studied theatre and film. Her ten-minute plays, “Body, Soul, Heart” and “Witches”, have been performed at the Monday Night Playground performances. Other recent projects include a workshop reading of her full-length play, The Dybbuk: A Reimagining with The Larking House Theatre, and her murder mystery one-act, Stage Fright, produced at the CSUF Advanced Directing showcase. Her other works, Catching Violets and Finding Faith, have been performed at CSUF as well. She’s received a certificate of exceptional writing from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival.

BAYLEE SHLICHTMAN (Smiling with Teeth), she/her, is a writer from Orange County, CA. She is currently on the board of the Orange County Playwrights Alliance and a member of the Vagrancy Theatre’s Blossoming Writer’s Group. She has had her work read or developed with AlterTheatre Ensemble, Breath of Fire Latina Theatre Ensemble, Curtis Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre/ LA, Long Beach Playhouse, OC-Centric New Play Festival, The Skeleton Rep(resents), South Texas College Latinx New Play Festival, The Wayward Artist, and The Workshop Theatre among others.

ACTORS

CYNTHIA ALDRICH (Denial, “Hazel”), is an actor and improviser. You can catch her most recently as the sweet, midwesterner Staci on Magnum P.I. Other credits include Mia in Amazon’s Elvis Lives and Hero in Shakespeare Orange County’s Much Ado About Nothing. Cynthia is a graduate of Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Theatre Institute and UC Santa Barbara. When Cynthia’s not chillin at her new home with her new husband, you can catch her having long afternoon convos with squirrels… or winning cars on game shows.

RONAN ARTHUR (Denial, “Landon”)

TAMIAH BANTUM (She Was There, “Dani”), she/her, is a queer, mixed-race Australian-born actor, best known for her role of Pixie in Amazon’s With Love, Storm in 2k Games’ Marvel’s Midnight Suns and Jasmine in The Out-Fit. Tamiah began her career on stage at the age of 12, as a theatre actor in her hometown of Perth. She trained in both Perth and New York earning two BFA’s and now works primarily in Los Angeles in film, television, and motion capture. A proficient action actor, creature performer, and martial artist, Tamiah strives to bring an eclectic skill set to every role.

JULIA BELANOVA (Denial, “Emma”), she/they, loves being part of the PlayGround community! She recurs as Sasha in Mayans M.C. on FX/Hulu. A Bay Area native, Julia has performed at many theaters throughout Northern California, including San Francisco Playhouse, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Marin Shakespeare Company, Jewel Theatre Company, and Custom Made. An artist/activist, Julia proudly serves as Program Coordinator of the Anita Hill-led Hollywood Commission. In 2021, she was thrilled to play the role of Wookie in PlayGround-SF’s online production of Diana Burbano’s Sapience.

JOSEF BETTE (The Beauty Who Created The Beast, “Bernard Wright”), he/him, is originally from Chicago, IL, LA transplant since 2011. He has been happy to be part of the PlayGround LA community since 2019 and his film credits include “Chasing the Blues” and “Parked” on Amazon Prime.

SUMMER BROYHILL (Denial, “Bobbi”), she/her, is an actor, dancer, singer, musician, educator, and writer. She has performed on Broadway (Hairspray), National tours (Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hairspray), Off-Broadway (Killer Therapy, The Day Before Spring, and The Independents, a New York Times Critics’ Pick), and in numerous regional productions, short films, and web series. Her solo play “DREAM Lover” debuted at the Playground San Francisco Solo Play Festival in 2022. MFA: Old Globe/ University of San Diego Graduate Acting Program. She is a proud member of the Playground-LA Writers Pool. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.

JORDAN CARLSON (Smiling with Teeth, “Emma”), she/her, originally from Ohio, is happy to be a part of another Monday Night Playground. She just wrapped production on two short films and will be shooting another in March. If she had to pick a 1994 favorite, it would be Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye.

JENNIFER CIPOLLA (Gender as a Second Language, “Lauren”), she/her, a Colorado native, found her love for musical theater at eight years old and later honed her skills with the International Lyric Academy program in Rome, Italy. Known for her versatility and emotive prowess, she has captivated audiences in productions like “God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness” and Lifetime’s “Double Mommy.”

CAROLYN DESKIN (The Beauty Who Created The Beast, “Millicent Patrick”) she/her, is represented by Lemon Lime and currently has a couple of short films in production. You can catch her on the second Wednesday of each month with her sketch team, Paperback, in this very same theater.

ALEJANDRA JAIME (The Beauty Who Created The Beast, “Nancy”), she/her, is glad to be back for another round of Playground! Recent TV/film credits include; Echo (Disney +), The Mosquito Coast (Apple TV), Latasha Harlins (Visual Aptitude). Theatre Credits; (Will Greer Shakespeare Rep.) “Hippolyta”-A Midsummer Night’s Dream, (Hollywood Fringe) “Medvedenko”-The Seagull. For rep inquiries: Insta: @Alejandra_Jay_. IMDb: https://m.imdb.com/name/nm12485612/

STEPHANIE T. KEEFER (The Last Rosie, “Woman”), she/her, Native Angelino Stephanie T. Keefer graduated from U. C., Irvine where she studied with legendary theatre director Jerzy Grotowski. Favorite roles are Hannah in The Night of the Iguana, Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Olivia in Twelfth Night. Keefer’s short films have garnered awards at festivals nationwide. She stars in the feature “A Girl, A Guy, A Space Helmet” currently on TUBI. See Stephanie’s work at IMDb.

KRYSTAL MOSLEY (She Was There, “Flora”; Smiling With Teeth, “Elisabeth”), she/her, comes all the way from Chicago, currently residing in LA, and is super excited about the production this evening! Some of her credits include 10 Virgins with Chicago Dramatist, Ruined with Eclipse Theatre, and Blood Wedding with Pursuit Productions. She would like to thank the PlayGround-LA cast, friends, and family for their continued support!

MELISSA ORTIZ (The Last Rosie, “Elinor”; PlayGround-LA Co-Executive Producer), she/her, is a PlayGround and ShotzSF company member. Favorite roles: Yazmin in Water by the Spoonful, Anna in Anna Considers Mars, and Masha in The Seagull. She received her MFA from the National Theater Conservatory and studies at John Rosenfeld Studio where she’s also a TA. She sends thanks to her family, friends, and husband for their love and support.

SCARLETT REDMOND (The Last Rosie, “Ginger”), she/her, is a Los Angeles-based SAG-AFTRA Actress, Voiceover Artist, and Casting Associate. Training: Emerson College (BFA), Stella Adler (NYC), John Rosenfeld Studios, and UCB LA. She’s a proud pup mama to a scruffy rescue named Chester Cheeseman and loves coffee, estate sales, and true crime podcasts.

MAE RULING (Gender as a Second Language, “Ms. Harding”), she/her, is a Los Angeles-based actress and a proud member of SAG-AFTRA. She recently finished recording her fifth audiobook and post-production on a short film that she wrote and starred in about Carole Lombard and Clark Gable. Mae is delighted to be returning to the stage with her fellow Playground LA company members.

ELIZABETH SCHMIDT (Gender as a Second Language, “Ms. Kerrigan”), she/her. Recent television credits: Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” (Netflix–recurring), “Strange Angel,” “For the People,” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” Film: “American Sniper” and “Incident on Highway 73” (best actress winner). Stage: Cal Shakes, Fulton Theatre, Mountain Playhouse, Lion Theatre/Theatre Row, & Garry Marshall Theatre. Elizabeth is a Northwestern University theatre program graduate and a proud co-founder and co-artistic director of InHouse Theatre Company, an intimate, site-specific theatre in Los Angeles. IG: @therealelizabethschmidt

DIRECTORS

SYLVIA CERVANTES BLUSH (The Beauty Who Created The Beast), ella/she/her, is the loudest and second youngest of 5, daughter to Mary Ellen and Crispin Cervantes and bride to Bill Blush. She is a proud Mexican-American artist who grew up predominantly in Bell Gardens, CA. She began her artistic journey through the public school system where she had free access to music, drama, and dance which fostered her passion to pursue a life in the arts. She’s worked on some cool projects with even cooler people but a formative experience to date was sharing a bilingual production of The Vagina Monologues with her parents in the audience.

FRIEDA DE LACKNER (Gender as a Second Language), she/her, is a theater and short film director and producer. She recently turned Scott Mullen’s play, 172 Push-Ups, from PlayGround-LA, into a short film starring PlayGround actors Krystal Mosley, Christina Wren, Jahnavi Alyssa, and Jon Gentry.

CHRISTIAN HAINES (She Was There; PlayGround-LA Co-Executive Producer), he/him, loves PlayGround! Past PG shows include Sapience, Anna Considers Mars, Value Over Replacement and tons of Monday Nights. Other credits include Straight White Men (MTC) Reginald and Ruckus, The Moonrisers (Moonrisers), Operation Ajax (Little Fish ), Jihad Jones (Perspective) Death of a Salesman, This is Our Youth (ATSF) and a bunch more. He holds an MFA from the National Theatre Conservatory and loves his wife, Melissa

CYBELLE KAEHLER (Denial), she/her, is a film and theatre director who strives to tell meaningful queer and female-focused stories. She has worked at New Swan Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, and Playground-LA, and recently directed and produced the new play “Restoration” at Hollywood Fringe. She graduated from UC Irvine with degrees in Drama and Film, where she was co-president of Brick Theatre Company, a student collective focused on LGBTQ+ works. Her latest short film, Tombé, won Best Student Film at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood and at LA Sun Film Fest. cybellekaehler.com insta: @cybellerose

LIZZY MCCABE (Smiling with Teeth), she/her, is a Stage Director & Producer based in Orange County, CA. She is the Founding Artistic Director of The Larking House theatre company in Anaheim and currently serves as an elected board member for the Orange County Theatre Guild. Her most recent stage directing credits include “A Streetcar Named Desire” (2020, 2022), “Cock” (2023), the world premieres of two original plays: “Sustained Release” by Matt Hayashi (2022) & “Parts & Pieces” by Amy Tofte (2023), and “JU1CE” at The Wayward Artist (2024).

IVAN RIVAS (The Last Rosie), he/him, is a resident director at Downtown Repertory and has worked as a teaching artist at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and Pasadena Playhouse.

PRODUCTION

JAY DUTCHER (Stage Manager)

JULIE LIPPERT-PASCO (Front of House)

PLAYGROUND-LA is the first regional expansion of the celebrated Bay Area playwright incubator and theatre community hub, PlayGround. PlayGround was launched in San Francisco in 1994 by co-founders Jim Kleinmann, Brighde Mullins and Denise Shama. In 1996, Kleinmann became PlayGround’s first Artistic Director. Since its founding, PlayGround has developed and staged over 1,000 original ten-minute plays by 250 Bay Area and Los Angeles early-career writers and has commissioned/developed more than 100 full-length plays. In the process of staging those works, PlayGround has helped to identify some of the leading emerging writers and, at the same time, has engendered the creation of a true community of theatre artists, bringing together hundreds of local actors, directors and playwrights. Each month, Oct-Mar, PlayGround-LA announces a topic to the thirty-six writers of the PlayGround-LA Writers Pool. Writers have four-and-a-half days to generate their original short plays and the top six are cast with leading local professionals and rehearsed for just 1.5 hours before being presented as script-in-hand staged readings on the second Monday of the month via Zoom live stream. At the end of each season, six of the thirty-six works developed in the Monday night series are selected for a one-night celebration, the Best of PlayGround. The 12th annual Best of PlayGround Gala will take place on Monday, April 08, 2024, live at the Broadwater Theaters and simulcast via Vimeo Live. For more information, visit http://playground-la.org.

PLAYGROUND CONTRIBUTORS

PlayGround is deeply grateful for the generous contributions of the many individuals, foundations, corporations and government agencies whose contributions make our work possible. This list reflects gifts of $125 or more committed between March 1, 2023 & March 11, 2024.

GOVERNMENT, CORPORATE, & FOUNDATION DONORS

Alameda County Arts Commission • Amazon • American Rescue Plan Act & CARES Act • Art Space Development Corporation • Avenue Greenlight • Berkeley Civic Arts • The Bernard Osher Foundation • Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation & Endowment Fund • California Arts Council • California Humanities • California Nonprofit Performing Arts Grant Program • Creative Capacity Fund • Disney • Grants For The Arts • KFF • Koret Foundation • LA County Arts Commission • Lenore & Howard Klein Foundation • The Leo J. & Celia Carlin Fund • Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation • NIAC • Nvidia • NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund • Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation • Planet Earth Arts • Rock Paper Scissors Landscape Inc. • Rye Financial Services • San Francisco Arts Commission • The Shubert Foundation • The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

SEASON SPONSORS ($5000+)

Emilie T. & Gordon C. Brooks, Daniel E. Cohn & Lynn Brinton, Paul Haahr, Lara Gilman & Jim Kleinmann

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ($2500+)

John H. Gilman, Carlie Wilmans, Anonymous

PRODUCERS CIRCLE ($1000-$2499)

Randy Adams, Meriko Borogove, David Goldman, Regina S. Guggenheim, Linda Kremer, Eric Craig Moody, Nitin, David Steele, Janine Wilburn, Anonymous (2)

PLAYWRIGHTS CIRCLE ($500-$999)

Steve & Gretchen Debenham, Hillary DeMartino, Keith Goldstein and Donna Warrington, Ms. Kathryn A Hecht, Paul & Pam Kleinmann, Gregg & Jennifer Le Blanc, Kathy Roberts & Aaron Loeb, Dr. Gary W. London, Pam MacKinnon, Danny & Dolores Martinez, Molly Noble and Bob Guilbault, Jeffrey Trescott, Pam & John Walker, Christian Wilburn, Maury Zeff, Anonymous (5)

PATRON ($250-$499)

James & Cassandra Carpenter, Sheila Collins, Kelly & Carlos Delgado, Philippa M Kelly & Paul Dresher, Jonathan Luskin, Dolores Martinez, Chris and Cindy Redburn, Diane Sampson, Jon & Susan Sweedler, Jon Tracy, Anonymous

ASSOCIATE MEMBER ($125-$249)

Mary E. Baird, Ms. Lynda H Barber, Ruth & Robert Brayton, Fair & Levit Family, Anirvan Ghosh, Dana Hall, Tobi Marcus, Michelle Nedboy, Doug Peckler & Evelyn Jean Pine, Kimberly Ridgeway, Mary Ann & Malcolm Rodgers, Kathryn Ryan, Christine Sheppard, Ms. Susan Terris, Mary Lou Torre, Anonymous (2)

To contribute to PlayGround, visit https://playground-la.org/contribute or contact PlayGround Associate Director of Development Lana Richards at lana@playground-sf.org or by phone at (415) 992-6677.

PLAYGROUND-LA WRITERS POOL

Michael P. Adams+, Tamadhur Al-Aqeel, Damian Alejandro Arteaga, Esther Banegas Gatica+, Jaisey Bates, Evan Baughfman+, Emily Bauer Rogers+, Summer Broyhill, Allie Costa+, Joe Luis Cedillo, Sandra Cruze, Stacy Davies, Amy Ellenberger, Lauren Gorski+, Grant Gottschall, Shoshanna Green, Rachel Harner, Briggs Hatton+, Susan C. Hunter, M.J. Kang+, Michael B. Kaplan+, Mildred Inez Lewis+, Rhea MacCallum+, Scott Mullen+, Peter Pasco, Lina Patel, Margo Wade Rofé, Jessica June Rowe+, Cara Sanchez, Baylee Schlichtman, Mark Sherstinsky+, Ayesha Siddiqui+, Maria D. Smith, Adrian Thomas, Evelyn Wu-Coffey, Carolina Pilar Xique

+ Past Best of PlayGround playwright.

PLAYGROUND-LA COMPANY

Jahnavi Alyssa, Jerome Beck, Julia Belanova, Josef Bette, Sylvia Cervantes Blush, Summer Broyhill, Ben Cain, Hugo Carbajal, Jordan Carlson, Jordan Covington, Tom Dang, Frieda de Lackner, Hillary DeMartino, Carolyn Deskin, Rogelio Douglas III, Angel Dumapias, Eliza Frakes, Eric Geller, Danny Gomez, Cassie Grilley, Christian Haines, Julio Hanson, Matthew Henerson, Mark Jacobson, Alejandra Jaime, Alexia Jasmene, Kurt Kanazawa, Stephanie T. Keefer, Tony Kim, Emily Kuroda, Christopher Gary Lawson, Christine Liao, Lea Madda, Jackie Marriott, Gabi Mayorga, Paris McCarthy, Sherry Michaels, Krystal Mosley, Rachel Berney Needleman, Melissa Ortiz, Andrew Perez, Tansu Philip, Gary Poux, Tiana Randall-Quant, Maiya Reaves, Jesus Reyes, Ivan Rivas, Debba Rofheart, Tahmus Rounds, Mae Ruling, Collette Rutherford, Anthony Rutowicz, Richard Ruyle, Janet Song, Angela Sonner, William Warren, Charlotte Williams, Jonathan Wray

PRODUCTION & STAFF

Jim Kleinmann, Co-Founder & Artistic Director 
Paris McCarthy, Associate Artistic Director 
Christian Haines, Co-Executive Producer
Melissa Ortiz, Co-Executive Producer
Sylvia Blush, Associate Producer 
Tiana Randall-Quant, Associate Producer 
Abel Marquez, 2023-24 Directing Apprentice
Julie Lippert-Pasco, 2023-24 Producing Fellow
Sofia Dutcher, Stage Manager

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